Lackey v. D & M TRUCKING

Swinehart, J.:

This is an appeal by D & M Trucking, the respondent, and Home Insurance Company, the insurance carrier, from the district court’s order affirming the decision of the administrative law judge. The district court held: (1) that an employer’s lump-sum payment made to a surviving legal spouse upon her remarriage, as provided in K.S.A. 44-510b(£>), does not entitle that employer to the eight percent discount provided in K.S.A. 44-531(a); (2) that the surviving spouse’s share of a workers’ compensation award should be reapportioned to the surviving dependent children from the date of…